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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 47

A Great War D.S.O. Group of Nine to General Sir Henry ap Rhys Pryce, Divisional Commander, France 1918, later Master General of the Ordnance, India Order of the Bath, Military Division, Knight Commander´s (K.C.B.) set of insignia by Garrard, London, silver-gilt, gold appliqué and enamel, extremely fine, in damaged case of issue, with riband; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top riband bar; Tibet, no clasp (Capt. H.E. ap Rhys Pryce 12th Mule Corps); 1914 Star, with Bar (Major. H.E. ap R. Pryce. I.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lt. Col. H.E. ap R. Pryce), name officially corrected on first medal; India General Service, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Col. Comdt. H.E. ap Rhys Pryce, I.A.), officially corrected; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, good very fine and better (10) Estimate £ 2,400-2,800 D.S.O. London Gazette 4.6.1917 Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel (Temp. Lieutenant Colonel), Indian Army General Sir Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (1874-1950), educated Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Sandhurst; entered the British Army 1895 and served with the 1st Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry; transferred to the Indian Army the following year and was posted to the 18th Indian Infantry (later the 10/9th Jats), and later the Supply and Transport Corps; Captain 1902 and Commanded 12th Mule Corps in the Tibet Expedition; Major 16.1.1913; on leave in England on the outbreak of the Great War he was at once employed by the War Office in connection with the arrival of the Indian Corps in France, and in the first few months of the War was responsible for the movements by rail of nearly one third of the Divisions in France; in Spring 1915 he was detailed to assist in raising the Welsh Army Corps and returned to the Western Front with the 38th Welsh Division as its G.S.O.I; Lieutenant Colonel 1916; Commanded the 113th Infantry Brigade and in 1918 was Officiating Divisional Commander (two brevets; C.M.G.; D.S.O.; Belgian Croix de Guerre; M.I.D seven times); Colonel 1919; returned to India 1920; Major General 1925 (C.B.) and appointed Director of Supply and Transport, Army Headquarters India that year; brought about the transfer to the I.A.S.C. of mechanical transport from the R.A.S.C., and introduced motor ambulances in place of the old bullock tonga and six wheeled lorries for cross-country work; Lieutenant General 1931, Commanded the Presidency, and Assam and Deccan Districts (K.C.B.), and in 1934 became the first Officer of the Indian Army to take up the appointment of Master General of the Ordnance; his work in fostering the munitions industry and in helping to establish the manufacture of light machine-guns in India was of great value in the coming War; General and A.D.C. to King George VI from 1936; General Sir Henry ap Rhys Pryce retired 1938.

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